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Code Kunst

South Korean record producer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ21825245
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Jo Sung-woo (Korean: 조성우; born December 18, 1989), better known by his stage name Code Kunst (코드 쿤스트), is a South Korean composer and music producer. In 2015, he released his second studio album Crumple and joined Highgrnd. In 2017, he released his third studio album Muggles' Mansion. In 2018, he signed to AOMG and appeared as a judge alongside Paloalto on Show Me the Money 777. He released his fourth studio album People in 2020 and won Producer of the Year at the Korean Hip-hop Awards in 2021. In 2023, he released his fifth studio album Remember Archive.

Early life and education

Jo Sung-woo was born on December 18, 1989, in Yeonsu, Incheon. He became interested in hip hop after listening to Nas' "Doo Rags". He decided to pursue a career in music after serving in the military. He studied design at Dong-ah Institute of Media and Arts, but got expelled.

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“Code Kunst” enters the record as south Korean record producer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Code, Kunst and South can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 2015, 2017, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1989-12-18. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Code, Kunst and South.
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“Code Kunst” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Code, Kunst and South provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21825245. VIAF identifies the subject as 11155103902776200345. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1989, 2015, 2017 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from Code Kunst” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.